Scientific giants Newton, Darwin and Hawking, astronomers Adams and Eddington, philosophers Bacon, Russell and Wittgenstein, historian of science Joseph Lee, economist Keynes, historian Travelian, famous writers Thackeray, Milton and Forster, poets Byron and Wordsworth, Harvard University founder John Harvard, and Turing, the father of contemporary computing. ...... These dazzling names all have a strong connection with Cambridge, and it can be said that Cambridge has influenced their lives. The list could go on and on.
Why has Cambridge achieved such world-renowned success? What is the secret of Cambridge's ability to teach, educate and nurture people?
Today, I'm going to reveal them all for you.
Before the answer is revealed, you must first understand one thing: knowledge is important, but quality and cultivation are even more valuable. Because knowledge can be enriched as you grow, but quality and cultivation will not. Once they are formed, they will set the tone of your life's destiny. In other words, what kind of quality and cultivation you have, what kind of achievement you will have.
Cambridge University has seen this wisely. That is why, from the day it was founded, it was not a machine for imparting knowledge, but a school dedicated to the training of gentlemen and ladies. Every building, every lawn, every dinner party here is filled with a rich aristocratic flavor.
The University of Cambridge pays great attention to cultivating all the qualities and cultivation that students should have as leaders, such as elegant demeanor, extraordinary speech, good habits, excellent inner qualities, etc., and, of course, also includes profound knowledge. Therefore, King George VI, Queen Margrethe of Denmark, Charles, Prince of Wales, Prince Edward and many other members of the British royal family, as well as India's former Prime Minister Nehru, Rajiv Gandhi, Malaysia's former Prime Minister Herman, Singapore's former Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew and so on, have chosen to complete the metamorphosis of their lives in the beautiful and quiet Jianhe River.
Looking around the world, Cambridge people can be seen at the pinnacle of almost every field. Although most of them are reserved and arrogant, but courteous, respect for women, often give alms, support public welfare activities, rarely do bad things, is recognized as a model of social morality and success. It can be said that Cambridge is synonymous with "success".
It is entirely possible for each and every one of you to be as successful as Cambridge people, if you find the Cambridge spirit.
What is the Cambridge spirit?
Through the 11 lessons of Destiny, Dream, Love, Establishment, Details, Mindset, Courage, Learning, Thinking, Success and Gratitude, reading the interesting short stories in each lesson and digging out the philosophies contained therein, you will be able to come up with the answer you want.
One day after the midterm exams, an old professor named a student in class to stand up and answer questions. The student, whom he had always admired, actually got the answer wrong.
During the break between classes, he made it a point to find the student and ask him about the situation. It turned out that this student had several homework exams are a mess, very worried, so moping. The old professor said nothing after hearing this.
The professor called him up again at the beginning of the next class, and the professor took a piece of white paper out of his binder of lectures and threw it on the floor, asking him, "How many fates does this piece of paper have?"
The student froze for a moment, not expecting the professor to ask such a strange question. After a while, he answered, "Throwing it to the ground turns it into a piece of waste paper, that's its fate."
The professor was noncommittal, and stepped on the paper a few times in front of everyone, and the paper was immediately covered with dust and dirt. The professor then asked the student to answer, "How many fates does this piece of paper have?"
"This paper is now waste paper." The student said with a frown.
Without saying a word, the professor bent down, picked up the piece of paper, tore it in half and then threw it on the ground again, asking the student to answer the same question. The students were confused by the professor's action and wondered what he was going to say. The student, red-faced, replied, "It's still a piece of scrap paper."
Without moving a muscle, the professor picked up the torn-in-half paper and quickly drew a sketch of a character on it, accompanied by a poem, while the footprints he had just stepped on aptly became the beautiful folds of a young girl's skirt. At this point the professor held up the drawing and asked that student, "Now answer, please, what is the fate of this paper?" The student understood the professor's meaning at once and answered dryly, "You have given this piece of waste paper hope and made it valuable." A small smile appeared on the professor's face.
Finally, the professor said, "As you can see, what an insignificant piece of paper it was at first, we make it worthless when we look at it with a negative attitude. But if we treat it with a positive mindset and give it some hope and strength, the piece of paper will come back to life. It's like that with a piece of paper, and it's like that with a person."
The treasure of family trainingA piece of paper can be thrown on the ground as waste paper and then stepped on by us, or it can be painted and written on, or it can be folded into a paper airplane and fly high and high for us to look up to. A piece of paper still has a variety of destiny, let alone people? Destiny is like paper, as long as you maintain an optimistic mindset, no matter how it changes, no matter what kind of setbacks and tribulations it suffers, it is still valuable.
Life is not rehearsed One day, several students asked Socrates, the famous wise man, "What is the true meaning of life?"
Instead of answering them directly, Socrates took them to a grove of neatly packed apples. It was the season of ripening fruit, and the branches of the trees were heavy with large, red, tantalizing apples.
"Each of you choose a line of fruit trees and walk along it from one end of the forest to the other, picking the one you think is the biggest and best. But there are two conditions: one, no backtracking; and two, no second choices." Socrates commanded.
The students set off. As they walked, they made their choices very carefully. By the time they reached the other end of the fruit grove, Socrates was there waiting for them.
"Have you all found fruit to your satisfaction?" Socrates asked.
The students looked at each other and refused to answer.
"What is the matter? Are none of you happy with your choices, children?" Socrates asked again.
"Teacher, let me choose again!"
One of the students pleaded, "I had just walked into the fruit grove when I found a very large and very good fruit, but, full of hope that there must be bigger and better ones behind me, I continued on, but when I got to the end of the grove, I realized that the one I saw for the first time was the biggest and the best. Teacher, let me choose again!" Another student followed: "I was the opposite of my elder brother, I picked what I thought was the biggest and best fruit soon after I entered the forest, but just after I took two steps forward I realized that there were many better and bigger fruits in the forest than the one I had picked. Teacher, please let me choose again too!"
"Teacher, let us all choose again!" The other students pleaded so as well, seeing that no one had found the fruit they were most satisfied with.
Socrates shook his head firmly and said, "Children, there is no second choice, life is what it is."
Family Trainings Treasure Life is not a dress rehearsal; every day is a live broadcast. We can not always sigh for yesterday's regrets, because yesterday has become history, has been conclusively written on your life, can not be erased, can not be erased; also can not put hope in tomorrow, because tomorrow is how unpredictable. The only thing we can do is to make good use of today and not let today become tomorrow's regret.
The Horse That Starved Between Two Piles of Grass A little red horse was playing by the side of the road when he was surprised to find two piles of grass: the larger pile was hay, and the smaller pile was fresh, young grass. Both piles of grass were so clean and sweet that the little red horse had gone out hungry, and now he could have a good meal! The little red horse was very happy, ready to come to the hay to enjoy a lot. At this moment, a thought suddenly flashed in his mind: "The young grass is fresher and tastier, if I eat the hay first, the pile of young grass will probably be snatched away by other horses passing by. It's better to eat the tender grass first."
So it ran to the pile of tender grass again. Just as it was about to eat, it thought to itself, "Although this pile of grass is very fresh and tasty, it is after all too little to eat. If the other horses eat up the pile of hay while I'm eating, I'll go hungry myself, so I'd better eat the hay first!" So, it ran back to the haystack. However, in its heart it wanted to eat the young grass more, so it ran back to the young grass pile again. Worried that it would not have enough to eat, it returned to the haystack again. In front of the two piles of hay, the little red horse struggled internally: he didn't know what he should eat first, and he was worried that the other horses would eat all the hay.
What a blessing it was, but in front of the little red horse it turned into a most painful thing. He was hesitant, and kept wandering between the two piles of grass. In the end, he starved to death in the middle of the two piles of grass.
The family's motto is that on the road of life, facing choices is inevitable, and if you don't know how to make choices and hover at the two ends of the destiny, then it is the same as in the self-imposed limitations to kill the right to live.
But you can't have it both ways. You must use your wisdom prudently, make choices, give up, make the best judgment, and choose the right direction that belongs to you. Once you make a choice, it means you give up other choices, you can't hesitate, you can't regret, you have to stick to it and trust your judgment.
The flea and the glass A psychologist once did this experiment: take out a glass, and then put a flea in it, the flea can easily jump out of the glass. Then he repeated the experiment several times, and the result was the same, the glass was not difficult to defeat it.
After testing, he found that the flea jumped about 400 times as high as its body, making it the champion high jumper of the animal kingdom.
Next the psychologist put the flea in a glass again, but this time with a lid on the glass.
With a loud pop, the flea hit the lid hard and fell off. The flea was very confused, but it didn't stop, because the flea's way of life is to "jump".
After hitting the wall again and again, the flea began to get smarter and adjusted the height of its jump according to the height of the lid.
After a few more days, the psychologist realized that the flea never hit the lid again, but just jumped freely underneath it. So the psychologist gently removed the lid, but the flea continued to bounce at the same height.
Three days later, he found the flea still bouncing at that same height. A week later, the poor flea was still bouncing at the same height, and it couldn't get out of the glass.
Is it true that the flea could not jump out of the glass? Absolutely not. It's just that in its heart of hearts, it has already defaulted to the height of this glass as its own insurmountable height, so it doesn't dare to try again. It lost to itself.
Many people don't dare to pursue success, not because they can't, but because their hearts have defaulted to a "height" that often suggests to their subconscious that it's too difficult, and that I have no way to do it. This is what we often call "self-imposed limitations".
Anything is possible. We have to break the habit of setting limits, try to realize our potential, and say aloud to ourselves that nothing is impossible! If you don't put limits on yourself, your life has no limits.
I am the Ace of Spades Mickey immigrated to the United States from Italy with his parents when he was very young. The family had been in a bad situation, his childhood was spent in the Motor City Detroit, gray and miserable, every day to struggle on the hunger line, so the pain and low self-esteem in his heart can no longer be painted. He didn't have the courage to raise his hand to answer the teacher's questions in school, his classmates never called on him when they played games, and the teacher couldn't even remember his name.
His father, who had done nothing all his life, always told him with a sigh, "Resign yourself to your fate, you'll never amount to anything." This statement made him even more frustrated, and he was always troubled by the fact that he would have a bitter and tedious future; was his future really going to be like his father's, spending his whole life in poverty and trouble?
One day, however, his mother told him, "My son, look up, you must remember one thing: there is no one like you in the world, you are unique."
The words encouraged him y, and the fire of hope was rekindled in his heart, and he decided that he was the best, and that no one was like him. Every day before he went to bed, he said to himself, "I am the best." And only then did he fall asleep.
After graduating from high school, he was ready to find a job. The first time he applied for a job, the secretary of the company asked for his business card, and he handed over an ace of spades.He got an interview right away.
The manager asked him, "You're the ace of spades?"
"Yes." He said.
"Why the ace of spades?"
"Because the ace stands for first, and I happen to be first."
And with that, he was hired.
Wanna know about Mickey later? He made it, literally became number one in the world. He set a Guinness World Record by selling 1,425 cars a year! Family Trainings TreasuresEvery human life is unique, we cry to come to this world and start a journey that belongs only to ourselves, everyone is special, all are God's unique creations. Why should you feel inferior? What reason do you have to have an inferiority complex?
You are the best. Not only do you have to convince yourself of this, but you also have to convince others with your actions. Because confidence makes a person look attractive.
There's always a place for you Ever since he was a kid, Anthony was a terrible student and was always at the bottom of his class. So, before he even graduated from high school, the principal personally called his mother and said, "Anthony may not be cut out for reading; his comprehension is so poor it's unbearable. He can't even figure out arithmetic beyond two digits. So it's best to withdraw him from school."
Mother was very sad, but also understood the principal's pain, she silently led Anthony back home, ready to raise him on her own. However, Anthony was not at all interested in reading, and he studied hard only to comfort his mother. But no matter how hard he tried, he still could not remember a simple math formula. He himself was in great distress.
One day, Anthony followed his mother to the supermarket in the neighborhood, and happened to pass by a store that was under renovation. He saw a man carving a piece of artwork inside the window, and Anthony immediately went up to him and watched it with all his attention. From then on, his mother noticed that whenever Anthony saw any material, including wood, rubber, etc., he would earnestly and carefully polish and shape it according to his own ideas until it became a beautiful work of art. Although his mother could not help but marvel at her son's craftsmanship at times, she did not want him to miss out on his studies by playing with these little things, which she considered nothing more than children's games and would not lead to any success. Anthony was obedient and had to continue his studies, but at the same time never gave up his hobbies. In order not to make his mother angry, he always worked on his creations in secret.
In the end, his mother was completely disappointed with Anthony, because no college would accept him, even the least prestigious one in the area. So, the mother said to Anthony, "Son, you're a grown man, go on your way, no one is responsible for you anymore!" Knowing that he was a complete failure in his mother's eyes, and saddened, Anthony decided to go far away.
Many years later, the city government, in honor of a famous person, decided to set up a bronze sculpture of this famous person in the square in front of the city hall, and solicited the community for the most perfect work. As soon as the news spread, many master sculptors offered their works. This is a matter of fame and fortune, not only can they get a large sum of money, but their big names can also be forever associated with the celebrity, and be remembered by the people of the city.
A sculptor from far and wide won the competition. At the unveiling ceremony, the sculptor said, "I want to dedicate this sculpture to my mother because I didn't get the success she expected when I was studying, and my failures made her sad and desperate. Now I want to tell her that there is no place for me in college, but there will always be a place for me in life, and a place for success. What I want to say to my mother is that I hope that today I have not let her down again."
The man is Anthony. Anthony's mother was standing in the crowd at the moment and she was crying tears of joy. She realized that Anthony wasn't stupid, she just hadn't put him in the right place.
Fallen leaves in the right place are nutrients, waste paper in the right place is a resource, and so are people. If you haven't achieved the success people expect of you, it's probably because you haven't put it in the right place.
Select the most suitable for their own stage, out of their own way, and then give full play to the unique talent and ability, that is the location of your success.
The son of a cobbler can also be president It is well known that the 16th president of the United States was the great Abraham Lincoln, a very special president.
He did not have an illustrious family background or mountains of wealth; his father was just a cobbler. You know, in the American society at that time, a person without a good family background will be despised by others, not to mention to run for the presidential election, it is simply a fool's errand, the sky is the limit.
On the eve of the presidential election, when Abraham Lincoln was speaking in the Senate, a senator taunted him by saying, "Mr. Lincoln, before you begin your speech, I want you to remember that you are the son of a cobbler."
Lincoln held his head high and replied to the senator's words, saying, "I am very grateful to you for reminding me of my father, who has passed away, and I shall certainly always remember your advice, knowing that I could never have done as good a job as my father did as a cobbler as President."
The many senators in the Senate were silent for a moment after hearing Lincoln's answer.
At this point, Lincoln suddenly turned to the haughty senator and said, "I understand that my father used to make shoes for your family, and if your shoe doesn't fit, I can help you correct it. Although I am not a great shoemaker, I learned the art of shoe making from my father when I was a child."
Then, addressing everyone in the room, he said, "To anyone in the Senate, if any of the shoes you are wearing were made by my father and now need to be repaired or improved, I will help in any way I can. But one thing is certain, I can't be as great as he was, and his craftsmanship is unmatched."
As he spoke, Lincoln burst into tears and fell y into the thoughts of his father. At this point, all the ridicule suddenly turned into thunderous applause, and his unassuming answer won the respect of the world.
That year, Lincoln's vote was unusually high, and he succeeded in becoming president of the United States.
Family motto treasure origin is not by oneself to choose, no matter the family situation is good or bad, we have to face frankly. From your attitude towards your own origin, you can see your personal qualities, which is exactly the capital to win the respect of others.
Higher and lower origins do not measure the size of a person's ability. The people who come from lowly backgrounds can also arrive at the other side of the success.
Nonexistent Obstacles At the graduation ceremony of a university, the old principal, who usually always had a serious face, suddenly said, "Today, everyone is leaving the school, so let's do a game together! The name is called Obstacle Course."
Then, he commanded the students, in the middle of the auditorium to stop a high and low two ropes, and set up a few chairs in front of the podium.
It was the last day of school, so the students were enthusiastic, and even the usually shy and timid students raised their hands. The old principal chose five students at random and announced the rules of the game.
The game goes like this: the contestants have to be blindfolded, and have to drill through and cross these two ropes successively, then go through the middle of the chairs and walk up to the podium. In this process, any part of the body can not touch the obstacles, otherwise it is considered a failure. Before the game, you can try walking twice without blindfolds to get used to it.
The game began. All five players were blindfolded. The first player, though very careful, kicked over a chair. The onlookers laughed, which made the remaining four blindfolded players nervous.
The second, third, fourth and fifth contestants took the stage one by one, and the students were laughing as they cued the cues, "Raise your foot, raise it higher," "Bend down, lower, lower," "A little bit to the left, you're going to bump into the chair," because by this time they had already quietly removed the ropes and chairs at the old school principal's behest. In fact, there is no longer any obstacle in front of them, to see them still make that kind of cautious and exaggerated action, how can not make people feel funny?
The game ends with the five players standing on the podium and removing the blindfolded handkerchiefs together. Looking at the empty auditorium, they all froze, and after a while, they all laughed in embarrassment.
After everyone had laughed, the old principal signaled for silence, and then spoke, "You are about to leave the school and work in society. I don't have any gifts for you, I just want to let you understand through this game: in life, some of the obstacles that you think are there, actually don't exist. And the biggest obstacles are in your own hearts."
Family Training TreasuresIn fact, difficulties and obstacles in reality are often not as serious as we think, or even, most likely, do not exist. Seemingly the worst possible outcome can be overcome and surpassed. As long as you have the courage to smile and meet the challenge, believe that you have the ability to overcome it, it is no longer terrible.
There is no obstacle that cannot be crossed, as long as you are not intimidated first.
Butterfly Prime Minister A few decades ago, there was a little boy in Canada who, due to an illness that resulted in partial paralysis of the left side of his face and deformed corners of his mouth, always had his mouth crooked to one side whenever he spoke, and was therefore very ugly in appearance. To make matters worse, he also had a stuttering problem and could not hear anything in his other ear. It could be said that all the misfortunes of life had befallen this poor little boy.
But the boy didn't give up on himself because he had so many misfortunes, despaired, and was ashamed to see others; on the contrary, he always tried his best to overcome his defects.
In order to correct his stuttering, he imitated a famous orator in ancient Rome, and spoke and recited with a small stone in his mouth every day. In a few days, the child's tongue and cheeks were worn out by the stone. Looking at the mouth and tongue by the stone grinding blood, his mother painfully embraced him with tears in her eyes and said, "Do not practice, my child, mom has been with you all your life." The understanding child wiped away his mother's tears and said, "Mom, the book says that every beautiful butterfly becomes after it breaks through the cocoon that binds it. I must be a beautiful butterfly."
After the boy's unremitting efforts, he was finally able to speak fluently. Because of his diligence and kindness, when he graduated from middle school, he not only achieved excellent grades, but also gained good popularity; his classmates and teachers loved him, never made fun of his looks, and believed that it was exactly God's unique creation.
In October 1993, he ran for the national prime ministerial election. His opponents maliciously used TV ads to exaggerate his facial flaws, followed by the tagline, "Do you want such a person to be your prime minister?" But not only did this behavior fail to achieve the desired effect, on the contrary, this highly unethical and degrading attack drew the ire and condemnation of a large portion of the electorate. The major media caught wind of the boy's extraordinary upbringing and immediately dug up and publicized it, winning great sympathy and respect from voters and sending the boy's vote share soaring.
The campaign slogan "I will lead our country and our people to become a beautiful butterfly" led him to be elected prime minister by a high vote, and he won re-election to a second term in 1997, and people affectionately called him the "Butterfly Prime Minister. He was Canada's first two-term prime minister, Jean Chrétien.
Family mottoThe appearance is important, but that's something we can't decide. The only thing we can decide is ourselves. Instead of adorning ourselves with flashy trappings, we should arm ourselves with a wealth of knowledge and good character.
Destiny is still in your own hands, since you aspire to be a beautiful butterfly, you should strive to break through the cocoon that binds it. Remember, as long as there is a goal in mind, it will be like a light to illuminate your path, allowing you to break through the difficulties into a butterfly!
You have not depreciated A university invited a president of a famous company to teach the students about success.
Toward the end of the lecture, the president gave a concluding speech, at the end of which he suddenly stood up, took out a 100-dollar bill, held it up high, and asked, "Which one of you wants this bill?"
Everyone said, "I want it! I want it!" Everyone wanted it.
He balled up the $100 and asked again, "Who else wants it?" Everyone said, "I want it! I want it!" Still everyone wanted it.
He stomped on it again with his foot, then asked, "Who wants it, everyone?" Everyone still said they wanted it.
At this point, he unfolded the bill, which had been stepped on and made dirty, and then tore it in half in one swift motion, and asked again, "Now, does anyone else want it?" Everyone still said yes.
At this point, he asked everyone, "Why does everyone want it?"
One of the students stood up and said, "Even though it's been crumpled up and stepped on and dirtied and eventually torn in half, it hasn't depreciated in value, it's still $100."
He nodded approvingly and said, "That's right, just because this bill has not depreciated. In fact, students are like this bill. You are about to enter society, and you will naturally and inevitably suffer failures and setbacks. However, no matter what kind of trials and tribulations you encounter, or what kind of serious setbacks you suffer, you should not think that you are no longer able to do it, no longer capable, and then lose the courage to move forward. Remember that you are still you and you have not depreciated. You can still start all over again."
The treasure of the family mottoIn the path of life, many of us feel worthless when we suffer a little setback. But we must understand one thing: if you think you are worthless, you will be worthless in the eyes of others; if you think you are priceless, others will value you more. Never devalue yourself! If you want to be a winner, you must first become strong. Life without virtue is defeat, without will is cheap, without talent is poor.
Play your own cards well When the 34th President of the United States, Dwight D. Eisenhower, was young, he was quite short-tempered and had no patience at all.
Usually, the family always played card games together as a pastime. One day after dinner, he played cards with his family as usual. This time, he was particularly unlucky, and every time he got a bad card. At first he only complained a little, but later, when he couldn't stand it any longer, he lost his young master's temper, threw his cards away, and stopped playing.
My mother, who was standing by, couldn't stand it anymore and said, "Since you want to play cards, you have to play with the cards you have in your hand, no matter whether they are good or bad. Good luck can't all happen to you!"
Eisenhower could not listen and remained indignant. His mother then added: "Life is like this game of cards, and it is God who deals the cards. Whether the card in your name is good or bad, you have to take it, you have to face it. What you can do is to calm down your restlessness, then take it seriously, play your cards well, and strive to achieve the best results. That's the way to play poker, that's the way to approach life!"
Eisenhower has since kept his mother's words in mind, and inspired himself to be aggressive, and never flinched when he encountered difficulties and misfortunes. In this way, he took one step at a time to move forward, and successively became a lieutenant colonel, commander in chief of the Allied Forces, and finally ascended to the presidency of the United States.
Nehru, the former president of India, once said something similar: "Life is like playing poker, what cards are dealt to the hand is fixed, but you can decide how to try to play well." Therefore, in the face of problems and setbacks, complaining can not solve any problem; actively adjust the mindset, bravely meet the challenges of life, and do their best to do everything, which is the best choice.